Chapter 108: The fragments are blocking her from the truth...
Wen Yi glanced at the fragment behind her. Is this the fragment that disappeared just now?
She's not sure.
But no matter what, Gu Yifeng is fine, and that's enough.
A surge of ecstasy suddenly rushed to my head.
"That was a close call!" Her voice trembled with the feeling of having just survived a disaster, and the corners of her eyes couldn't help but moisten. "Do you know... you almost died just now!"
She grabbed his collar, crying and laughing: "That's great, that's great!"
“You’re okay!!”
"That really scared me to death!"
Wen Yi looked up at him and kept muttering, "Can you believe it? The fragment actually disappeared!" Her body swayed and she almost fell due to weakness, and was subconsciously supported by Gu Yifeng.
She opened her arms as if expecting a hug.
But the moment her eyes met Gu Yifeng's, the smile froze on her lips.
He didn't smile, and his hands that were holding her were shaking slightly.
There was fear, anger, and even... resentment in his eyes that she had never seen before.
But there is no gratitude.
What was his reaction? His fiery heart gradually cooled.
"Gu——"
"What were you doing just now?!" She was interrupted coldly by Gu Yifeng as soon as she opened her mouth.
Wen Yi was stunned and answered subconsciously: "I just... saved you."
"Save me?" He sneered. "I begged you to save me?"
She never expected him to say such a thing, and she took a step back involuntarily.
Gu Yifeng's eyes suddenly turned cold, and he didn't let her go. He took a step closer, his voice without any warmth:
"Who do you think you are?" He frowned. "Do you think you were so great just now? I should be grateful to you, right?"
Wen Yi was struck by lightning, shaking her head wildly, and instinctively wanted to retort, but when the words came to her lips, her nose suddenly felt sore.
The last second, she had just snatched him back from the hands of death.
The next second, he scolded me to the point that I began to doubt my life.
The fragment did not hurt her, but Gu Yifeng's words stabbed her self-esteem, causing her a dull pain.
From what he said—she had taken the fatal fragment for him, and it was she who had done it on her own initiative? She had clearly saved him, so instead of saying thank you, why was she still speaking harshly to him?
Damn! You can’t say that without having had a cerebral thrombosis for ten years.
Ten years is too short, start with twenty years!
Wen Yi blinked hard, trying to hold back her tears, and tried to comfort herself in her heart - don't be angry, don't be angry.
He wasn't targeting me, he was just frightened by the scene. Gu Yifeng was no longer the director of the Investigation Bureau, accustomed to life and death, but an ordinary researcher. Anyone would be stressed and lose control after such a near-death experience.
She forced a smile, took a half step forward, and wanted to hold his hand.
"Snap!" With a crisp sound, her hand was knocked down by him.
She was stunned on the spot, her hand aching. This time, he showed no mercy.
Unprecedented embarrassment.
Wen Yi looked at him in disbelief.
No matter in the past or now, even when they first met, Gu Yifeng had been reluctant to use force on her when he arrested her as a suspect. But now, this man who had the closest contact with her was like a complete stranger, even colder than a stranger.
Chris finally got up from the ground, staggered forward, and stood between the two men. "Gu! Are you crazy? Do you know what you are saying?!" He pointed at the debris embedded in the wall and shouted, "She just saved you! You should be grateful to her, not blaming her! Wake up, okay?"
Gu Yifeng didn't look at him, his eyes were fixed on Wen Yi, and he raised his hand to stop Chris from speaking.
The hurtful words continued: "Why does someone who doesn't even take her own life seriously think that her sacrifice deserves my gratitude?"
Chris couldn't help but retort, "She was trying to save you! How can that be considered as not taking her life seriously?!"
"She is just depriving me of the right to choose in the name of 'for my own good'!" His eyes penetrated time and saw her bloodstained hands. A lingering smell of gunpowder mixed with the smell of blood rose from the depths of his memory, choking his lungs and making him suffocate.
He couldn't help but raise his hand to cover his chest.
"If she died for me, do I have the right to say no?" Gu Yifeng's voice trembled slightly, and a trace of confusion flashed in his red eyes. "Will she give me such a chance?"
"Save me?" He sneered.
"No."
"This isn't saving me."
"I will never appreciate such a sacrifice. I will only hate her."
Wen Yi's eyelashes trembled slightly, but she didn't say anything, because she knew that what he said was true.
Now, past.
She had indeed made many choices for him.
Although some of them were not her active choices, she just did what she thought was right without asking him whether he was willing or not.
Chris suddenly opened his eyes wide and spoke again: "Gu...you are wrong, it's not that she doesn't respect her own life, but——"
“Chris!”
Wen Yi suddenly interrupted him.
"Don't say anymore." She closed her eyes, her face full of loneliness.
When he opened his eyes again, his eyes were sparkling.
"Not again."
She turned and left without looking back, pausing slightly as she passed the fragment embedded in the wall.
Wen Yi stared down at the blade-like fragments and finally understood the rules: the mysterious intelligent being would not allow her to die, but could easily kill the one she loved.
If she hadn't stepped in front of Gu Yifeng in time, he would have been the one dead. They were preventing her from discovering the truth. The fragments were just a warning.
She withdrew her gaze and walked out of the laboratory.
The metal door behind her slowly closed, the wind and snow suddenly rose, and snowflakes fell silently on her shoulders.
The chill penetrates my heart.
The lab was near the sparsely populated suburbs, so there weren't many taxis. She pulled out her phone and was about to order a ride home.
A phone call suddenly rang.
Wen Yi took a look and quickly answered: "Cousin-in-law?"
"Yiyi." The deacon's voice came from the other end of the phone, "How is the progress on your end?"
Wen Yi pursed her lips, and the snowflakes fell on her brows and melted quietly: "Well... I'm still working hard, and I've already made a breakthrough."
"That's good." The other party's tone slowed down a bit, and then asked, "When can you come back? Wen Chi is taking care of all the things at home for you. He also has to go down the mountain to investigate the disappearance of the superpowered people, and he can't handle it all by himself. Besides, you have to be at the wedding next month..."
"I understand." She pursed her lips until they turned pale and paused, "I'll be back as soon as possible."
Perhaps she caught a cold in the cold wind, and her abdomen was cramped. Wen Yi frowned tightly, covered her stomach and groaned softly.
"Yi Yi, what's wrong with you?" A worried voice came from the other end of the phone.
"It's okay, I have something else to do, so I'll hang up first." She hung up the phone and was about to continue to book a car, but she saw the female assistant at the laboratory front desk coming over with an umbrella.
"Miss Wen, our person in charge asked me to take you home."
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The laboratory was dead silent, and the scattered debris glowed coldly.
Gu Yifeng sat quietly in the ruins, listening to Chris hang up the phone. He turned to Gu Yifeng and said, "Gu, don't worry, my assistant has just sent her home safely. Do you want to go home now?"
He shook his head, his voice hoarse: "She wouldn't want to see me now."
Chris didn't try to persuade her any further.
He bent down to pick up a severely deformed titanium alloy fragment from the ground and smiled bitterly. "Gu, you didn't tell me before you came that she could blow up the polar chamber." He couldn't help but say dejectedly, "Will the insurance company refuse to pay in this situation? Oh my god, what should I do?"
Gu Yifeng remained silent and helped him clean up.
Chris threw the fragments away, his eyes sharp as he analyzed, "Gu, I think our experiment is going in the wrong direction. Near-death stimulation...can't activate her superpowers."
Gu Yifeng squatted beside the wreckage, his fingertips tracing the edge of the debris: "That's not the case. Everything we do is being interfered with by some external force, perhaps from a higher dimension or a predator from the same dimension."
Chris nodded. "If that's the case, we might need a place... where we can't be watched."
Gu Yifeng stood up and looked at the snowflakes flying outside the window: "Or think of a way to bypass them."
Snowflakes fall silently, the sky and the earth are white, and everything is quiet.
Wen Yi casually threw a piece of damp firewood into the fireplace. The only sound in the house was the crackling of the burning wood and a few wisps of black smoke.
She slumped over on the sofa, her stomach cramping. She was too tired to move, just staring at the dancing fire, the light flickering in her eyes. She slowly closed her eyes and drifted off into sleep.
In the dream, the glowing life form slowly pulsated.
Wen Yi sneered: "You really are everywhere." Enemies often meet on a narrow road. Now she has to see them even in her dreams. She can't escape them. It's her bad luck.
"Don't try to separate us. We are one." The ball of light said.
"Who's one with you!" She gritted her teeth. "You're also remotely monitoring me, right?"
The ball of light suddenly trembled, and the voice hesitated slightly: "Your physiological signals... are abnormal."
"You bastards, weren't you the ones who caused the biggest abnormality in my body?"
Light ball: "No..."
"Shut up, I'm fine without you!"
She had left her family business behind, flown halfway around the world, and after so much trouble, she hadn't made any progress. Today, she was even scolded by Gu Yifeng for no apparent reason. Wen Yi was just worried about having no place to vent her anger, and now that the Light Ball had arrived, she couldn't blame her for being rude.
So, she started a cross-dimensional, high-density, zero-repetition output towards the ball of light. Not a single dirty word was repeated, and even the punctuation marks were murderous.
The light group went offline directly.
Wen Yi let out a long breath and felt that she could continue cursing for another day and night.
Outside of her dream, Wen Yi was sound asleep, unaware of the flickering fire in the fireplace or the black smoke seeping out of the chimney. Time ticked by, and she lay motionless on the sofa, her breathing shallow, her face pale. The red light on the electronic bracelet on her wrist flashed:
【HR:142bpm】
【RR:32 times/min】
【SpO: 69%】
【System prompt: Suspected acute hypoxia! 】
Inside the house, the carbon monoxide alarm blared.
[CO concentration: 400 ppm | Evacuate immediately]
In the woods behind the house, Gu Yifeng's action of chopping trees was interrupted by a hurried prompt from his mobile phone - [Warning] Yiyi's vital signs are abnormal: blood oxygen level drops sharply, dangerous!
Gu Yifeng's pupils suddenly shrank, he threw away the axe and ran towards their wooden house.
The moment he broke open the door, he was almost scared to death.
Black smoke curled from the embers in the fireplace, and the carbon monoxide alarm continued to sound.
Wen Yi lay on the sofa, unaware of anything, as if she had lost consciousness.
"Yi Yi!"
He was about to lunge forward when his steps abruptly stopped—the space before him suddenly began to distort. The air rippled, and the black smoke above her head slowly twisted as if encountering a barrier. His chest tightened, and he felt a familiar palpitation. He subconsciously realized that it was the supernatural power within her body that was stirring, instinctively distorting the space.
"Hold on!" Gu Yifeng raised his hands to cover his mouth and nose, gritted his teeth and ran towards her.
Wen Yi awoke in a flash of white light, her limbs cold and her head splitting. She moved her hand, only to discover an IV drip on the back of her hand and an oxygen tube in her nose. Her blurry vision swept across the ward, finally landing on the figure beside the bed.
Gu Yifeng leaned back in his chair, looking down at his tablet. The light from the screen reflected in his eyes, revealing lingering fatigue. Noticing movement, he immediately looked up to check on her condition and asked softly, "How are you feeling?"
Wen Yi didn't say anything, staring blankly at the ceiling. The last thing she remembered was the ball of light in her dream... What happened next? How did she end up in the hospital?
Gu Yifeng stood up to check the speed of the drip, then reached out and stroked the back of her cold hand.
Wen Yi frowned and pulled her hand away.
He didn't care about her resistance, and sat back in his original position, silently staying by her bedside, and continued to work with his head down.
There was only silence in the ward.
Wen Yi felt a little thirsty, but didn't want to tell him. She struggled to get up and reach for the water glass on the table.
The next second, the cup of water was handed to his lips.
She looked up and saw Gu Yifeng leaning over her, helping her up from the bed. She took the water and drank it in one gulp. When he took the cup back, she noticed some new wounds on his fingers.
Her eyebrows jumped and she was about to ask.
"Yesterday when you were asleep, the flue leaked and you suffered from carbon monoxide poisoning." Gu Yifeng spoke first, "But at the critical moment, your supernatural power was activated."
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